--- old/src/share/classes/sun/applet/AppletImageRef.java	2014-01-21 16:51:26.000000000 -0800
+++ new/src/share/classes/sun/applet/AppletImageRef.java	2014-01-21 16:51:26.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1996, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1995, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -27,27 +27,71 @@
 
 import java.awt.Toolkit;
 import java.awt.Image;
+import java.lang.ref.SoftReference;
 import sun.awt.image.URLImageSource;
 import java.net.URL;
 
-class AppletImageRef extends sun.misc.Ref {
+class AppletImageRef {
+    private SoftReference<Image> soft = null;
+
     URL url;
 
     /**
+     * Returns a pointer to the object referenced by this Ref.  If the object
+     * has been thrown away by the garbage collector, it will be
+     * reconstituted. This method does everything necessary to ensure that the garbage
+     * collector throws things away in Least Recently Used(LRU) order.  Applications should
+     * never override this method. The get() method effectively caches calls to
+     * reconstitute().
+     */
+    public synchronized Image get() {
+        Image t = check();
+        if (t == null) {
+            t = reconstitute();
+            setThing(t);
+        }
+        return t;
+    }
+
+    /**
      * Create the Ref
      */
     AppletImageRef(URL url) {
         this.url = url;
     }
 
-    public void flush() {
-        super.flush();
+    /**
+     * Flushes the cached object.  Forces the next invocation of get() to
+     * invoke reconstitute().
+     */
+    public synchronized void flush() {
+        SoftReference s = soft;
+        if (s != null) s.clear();
+        soft = null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the thing to the specified object.
+     * @param thing the specified object
+     */
+    public synchronized void setThing(Object thing) {
+        flush();
+        soft = new SoftReference(thing);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks to see what object is being pointed at by this Ref and returns it.
+     */
+    public synchronized Image check() {
+        SoftReference<Image> s = soft;
+        if (s == null) return null;
+        return s.get();
     }
 
     /**
      * Reconsitute the image.  Only called when the ref has been flushed.
      */
-    public Object reconstitute() {
+    public Image reconstitute() {
         Image img = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(new URLImageSource(url));
         return img;
     }